Koltsova-Bychkova Alexandra Grigoryevna

Koltsova-Bychkova Alexandra Grigoryevna (1892, Moscow -1985, Moscow).

Painter and applied artist. Studied in the Stroganov School (1912-1918), in VHUTEMAS (the Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops) under А.А. Оsmerkin. In 1928 – 1932 she worked in Paris, mostly in the sphere of industrial graphic arts and as a cloth designer. She designed labels, advertising posters, trade marks, sketches for clothes and footwear, illustrations to P.P. Ershov’s tale ‘Koniok-Gorbunok’. After 1928 worked as graphical artist, made landscapes and still life pictures. Works by the artist were exhibited in Florence and Sofia. Personal exhibitions of A. Koltsova-Bychkova were held in Paris (1929) and Moscow (1940), her works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, in many regional museums